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by dethac 8y ago
I love the service manuals from Dell/HP/Lenovo! Examples: Lenovo P52 hardware maintenance manual: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/tp_p52_hmm_en... Dell XPS15 service manual: https:/&
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by dethac 8y ago
They're a massive company, and they can't justify anything by saying that they're the underdogs.
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by dethac 8y ago
It is great business sense. It keeps from giving the opposition ammunition in their lawsuit... It's just a shame that good business sense isn't exactly good for the user.
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by dethac 8y ago
I had a problem with a MacBook Air (the hinge had an issue)... They asked for $800 to fix it. Never dropped, everything still worked, the hinge just would not stay up. I'm in Canada :( I guess Apple gives better service in countries wh
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by dethac 8y ago
I had a tech come over and install and he was done in like 3 minutes. I asked him how he did it and he lead me through it... so I guess now I can do it myself? Either way, it's insanely easy.
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by dethac 8y ago
It honestly feels like choosing a laptop today is trying to make the least bad choice. MacBook? Piss-poor keyboards and external device support. XPS? Poor support. ThinkPad? Windows 10. <Laptop> with Linux? X software is not available
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by dethac 8y ago
2 years OS, 3 years monthly security, 4 years quarterly security. Plus, app updates are not tied to OS updates, so vulnerabilities in the browser and other built-in apps can be more easily patched. Would 5 years of OS updates be appreciated
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by dethac 8y ago
Thinness drives sales. Sacrificing reliability drives sales. It's not only Apple: look at Microsoft, for example.
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by dethac 8y ago
I think this is a bit of a disingenuous comparison. That ThinkPad looks to be around the mid 1990s (maybe early 2000s?). Meanwhile, if you looked at a modern ThinkPad (regardless of your opinion on Lenovo as a company), the keyboard is stil
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by dethac 8y ago
You could get the 970 EVO as well. IIRC it's also MLC.
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by dethac 8y ago
Except... it's not. We know that larger SSDs are faster... but if we compare a 1TB Apple SSD in the iMac Pro to a 500GB 970 EVO (around $120)... the 970 EVO is at least equal, if not faster in performance.
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by dethac 8y ago
The 970 EVO performs noticeably better in almost all benchmark categories (latency, sequential read/write, 4K read/write) than Apple SSDs. The 970 EVO uses MLC. The 970 EVO is $230. Come again?